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Practice

Practice explores artwork inspired by craft, and features highly skilled, process-oriented and conceptual works that require a high degree of proficiency and commitment – including drawing, photography, felting, installation, sculpture, bookmaking and storytelling.

Jodi Colella is a contemporary artist who creates tactile sculptures and installations laced with both whimsy and threat. Among a selection of recent exhibitions are: The Nobility of Things, solo exhibition, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA; The Order of the Universe, Beard/Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA; Re:Constructed, solo exhibition, Carney Gallery, Regis College, Weston, MA; De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), Joshua Creek Heritage Art Center, Ontario, Canada; Outside/Inside the Box, FiberPhiladelphia, Philadelphia, PA; GREEN: the Color and the Cause, Textile Museum, Washington, DC. Her awards include 2013 Artist-in-Residence Fruitlands Museum, Pollack-Krasner Fellowship Vermont Studio Center, and 2012 Somerville Arts Council Fellowship. A graduate of Boston University, Jodi continued her studies at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She is currently having fun conceptualizing a series of interactive public art installations.